Constitution, Democracy & Electoral Reform

• Abolition of MP’s perks• Transparency for all remaining perks• MP’s bound by the same laws that apply to everybody else• Election of committee chairmen and parliamentary officials• Committee hearings for senior civil servants and heads of executive agencies• Annualised budgets for each department and agency• Scrapping state funding for parties and real transparency in donations• A much smaller ministerial payroll• Open primaries• Lords to be elected• Abolish the Remembrancer from Parliament• Ban all forms of monetary lobbying• An end to the so-called “public-private sector rotating door”• Make the Elected Representatives (Prohibition of Deception) Bill law• Pass a Reserve powers act, guaranteeing the supremacy of Parliament over foreign treaties and domestic judicial activism.• Ban Millionaires, billionaires, corporations and foreign interests from donating directly/indirectly to political parties• Abolition of the City of London Corporation - The secret state & tax haven within London• MP’s second homes (those closest to Westminster) shall become state property at the end of their ‘career’• The introduction of ‘none of the above’ on ballot papers• The prime minister shall be limited to 2 terms in office• All MP’s shall be limited to 3 terms in office• There should be a public referendum before going to war except for invasion by a foreign military or immediate threat.• Party manifestos should be legally binding